Published in Physical Review Letters · View the paper (DOI)
A team of physicists has discovered that atomic clocks can probe time in a way that reveals its quantum nature. By manipulating the vacuum itself, they created squeezed states that exhibit subtle quantum behavior, allowing a single clock to measure how it ticks both faster and slower simultaneously.
Coverage from 2 institutions
- Scientists at Stevens Institute of Technology reveal that time can go quantum in ion clock experiments Stevens Institute of Technology · Apr 20, 2026 · first to report
- Using atomic clocks to reveal the quantum properties of time Kyushu University · May 15, 2026